Federal authorities have charged a man who sold ammunition to Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock with manufacturing armor piercing bullets. The dealer, Douglas Haig, spoke to reporters about the massacre a few hours earlier Friday. (Feb. 2)
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Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference on Feb. 2, 2018, in Chandler. Haig spoke about his experience selling ammunition to the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Oct. 1, 2017, Las Vegas shooting, the deadliest in modern U.S. history.(Photo11: Brian Skoloff/Associated Press)

According to the criminal complaint sworn by an FBI agent in Nevada and signed by a federal magistrate judge in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas in February, Paddock tried to buy ammunition from Haig at gun shows in Las Vegas and Phoenix in August and in September, weeks before the Oct. 1 shooting.

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Haig said Paddock bought at least 40 rounds from him at the Las Vegas gun show on Aug. 27.

Paddock approached Haig's booth at the Phoenix show Sept. 9, but Haig said he did not have on hand the amount of ammunition Paddock wanted to buy. So on Sept. 19, Paddock went to Haig's Mesa home personally and bought 600 rounds of "tracer" ammunition and an undisclosed quantity of other ammunition.

During a February press conference with his attorney, Haig said that he did not notice anything suspicious about Paddock during the transactions.